Apple-slicing machine.



W. H. EWELL.

APPLE SLICING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.8. 191s Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

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APPLE-SLICING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

Application filed August 8, 1918. Serial No. 248,820.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILL H. EWELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Santa Cruz, in the county of Santa Cruz and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apple-SlicingMachines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improve ments in machines for slicingfruit and vegetables. The object of the invention is to provide anapparatus of this character, which will pare, core and cut an apple orother fruit or vegetable into slices suitable for drying and will besimple in construction and operation.

I have herein shown my invention as applied to what is known as theRival apple parer, manufactured by the Boutell Manufacturing Company, ofRochester, New York, and for which United States Patent No. 405,825, wasgranted to IV. H. Boutell June 25th, 1889.

Said patented machine cores and pares an apple and also makes therein ahelical cut, extending inwardly to the hole cored out.

My present invention also cuts the apple longitudinally, thereby causingit to be separated into slices convenient for drying.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of my machine; Fig.2 is an enlarged partial transverse vertical section thereof on the line22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3

= is a portion of an apple cut by improved slicing machine.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a rotary fork upon which an appleis impaled, and upon which it is rotated about an axis extending in thedirection of the core.

2 indicates a paring knife carried at the lower end of an arm 3, whicharm is pivoted at its upper end on a horizontal arm 4 extending from ashaft 5, said shaft 5 and arm 4 being adapted to be moved longitudinallyand, when so moved, being rotated by means of a traveling pin 6 engaginga stationary recess or cam 7.

A spring 8 attached to an outward extension 9 from said arm 4 pressesthe lower end of the arm 3 inwardly and therefore presses the paringknife 2 against the apple and also provides for adjustment of the pare'r2 to conform to the size of the apple.

11 indicates a corer, of approximately semi-circular cross section, heldin place by a U-bolt 12 and a tube 13 within the corer, and carried by acarriage 14 movable longitudinally and horizontally, upon which carriagesaid corer can also swing in a vertical plane. 15 indicates a slicer,which moves on the same carriage as the corer, and is located just inadvance of the front end of the corer. Its cutting edge is directedtransversely to the motion of the carriage 14. As the apple turns withthe fork, said slicer makes a helical cut therein extending from itscircumference to the central hole cut out by the corer. On the rearwardmotion of the carriage the apple is reversed from the fork by the corerand the slicer which has finished its helical out.

All of the above is merely the old construction disclosed in said patentand forms no part of my present invention. I

In my invention I secure to a member 15 of the stationary frame 14, bymeans of bolts 16 or any other suitable means, a knife 17, of which thelower portion is in a vertically and longitudinally extending plane, itscutting edge being directed in the same way as that in which the coreradvances to cut out the core of the apple.

The tube 13 is fitted in the upper part of its wall with a slot 18extending from the front or advancing end of said tube a sufficientdistance to prevent the motion of the corer being impeded by said knife17.

On the rearward movement of the carriage, carrying with it the apple onthe corer, the knife 17, being stationary, makes a longitudinal out 20therein. As this knife 17 is of such length that said longitudinal cutextends inwardly from the circumference of the apple to the cored outhole, it is evident that all the helical coils 21 formed in the apple bythe helical cut are'cut across by the longitudinal cut and are therebyseparated from each other.

I thus provide means whereby an apple is not only cored and pared but isalso separated into slices of a convenient form for drying.

I claim 1. In a slicing machine for fruits and vegetables, incombination with means for making a central hole extending through thefruit or vegetable, and a helical cut therein extending from itscircumference to the central hole, means for cutting longitudinally allthe coils made by the helical cut.

2. In a slicing machine for fruits and vegetables, in combination withmeans for rotating said fruit or vegetable, a corer for cutting out acore therefrom, a slicer, and a longitudinally reciprocable carriagewhich carries said corer and slicer, said slicer having its cutting edgedirected transversely to the motion of the carriage, whereby a helicalcut is made in the fruit or vegetable, a knife having its cutting edgedirected in the opposite Way to the rearward motion of the carriage, andarranged to cut said fruit longitudinally on its rearward movement onthe corer.

W. H. EWELL.

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